Iron (Fe) is an essential plant micronutrient, and its deficiency limits plant growth and development on alkaline soils. Under Fe deficiency, plant responses include up-regulation of genes involved in Fe uptake from the soil. However, little is known about shoot responses to Fe deficiency. Using microarrays to probe gene expression in Kas-1 and Tsu-1 ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana, and compar...

We investigated the effects of copper (Cu) and iron (Fe) availability on the growth rates, cellular Cu content, and steady-state Cu uptake rates of eight species of centric diatoms (coastal and oceanic strains). Whereas Fe and Cu availability had a significant effect on the growth rates of both costal and oceanic diatoms, an interaction between Fe and Cu availability and growth rates was only o...

A 2 x 6 factorial experiment with Cu added at 5 or 250 ppm and Fe added at 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, or 300 ppm was conducted using 480 crossbred weanling pigs with an average initial weight of 7.0 kg. The basal corn-soybean meal-whey diet contained 4 ppm Cu, 169 ppm Fe, and 199 ppm Zn. Pigs were allotted by weight, sex, and litter outcome group and had ad libitum access to feed and water during ...

Copper abundances are presented for 40 red-giant members of the massive Galactic globular cluster ω Centauri, as well as 15 red-giant members of the globular clusters NGC288, NGC362, NGC3201, NGC6752, and M4 (NGC6121). The spectra are of relatively high spectral-resolution and signal-to-noise. Using these abundances, plus published literature values for field stars, the abundance trends of [Cu/...

The effect of Cu on the reduction behavior and surface properties of supported and unsupported Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalysts was investigated using in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in combination with ex situ bulk characterization. During exposure to 0.4 mbar CO-H(2) above 180 degrees C, the reduction of CuO to C...

The intimate relationship between Fe and Cu in human nutrition has been recognised for many years. The best-characterised link is provided by caeruloplasmin, a multiCu-binding protein that acts as a serum ferrioxidase and is essential for the mobilisation of Fe from storage tissues. Decreased Cu status has been shown to reduce holo-caeruloplasmin production and impair ferrioxidase activity, lea...

The addition of cobalt was experimentally observed to increase the strength and impact toughness of Cu precipitation hardened steel. In order to understand the mechanism of this strengthening, we studied the effect of cobalt in the bulks and surfaces of bcc Fe and bcc Cu, as well as at the Fe/Cu interface by ab initio density-functional approach. We investigated the cobalt distribution between ...

OWEN, CHARLES A., JR. Effects of iron on copper metabolism and copper on iron metabolism in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 224(3): 514-518. 1973.-Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed whole-milk powder (Cu ,Fe deficient), milk powder plus Cu in the drinking water (Fe deficient), or milk powder plus iron in the drinking water (Cu deficient). Studies with 67Cu were carried out for the most part after the rats...

Nanocomposite materials of the Fe-Cu system with/without small addition of carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by mechanochemical activation of elemental Fe and Cu powders in a high-energy planetary ball mill and have been examined by the X-ray diffraction method, SEM and the thermopower methods; the tensile strength of the materials obtained has been estimated. The metastable (Fe, Cu) super...

We report dynamic alternation of the redox chemistry of the Fe/ Fe couple in magnetite during high temperature water−gas shift reaction in Cu codoped Mmodified ferrite catalysts. Various hematitic solid solutions of the type Fe2O3−MxOy−CuOx with M = Cr, Ce, Ni, Co, Mn, and Zn are synthesized using the industrially economical and environmentally friendly coprecipitation method. Interestingly, Cu...